Geoff wasted no time replying. He says the SJ8 is on order and should be available the first week of August. I'm on a preorder list! Price isn't confirmed yet but it's estimated at 1200 euros or about $1700 US. What that gets you isn't confirmed but I'd guess that is for the airframe only considering $1700 is about what the Pletty motors will cost.
Shall I take a shot at an educated guess for an almost flying SJ8?
- SJ8 Airframe ...................................1700
- 8 Pletty's ........................................1700
- 8 MK BL-CTRL2.0 ..............................640
- MK Boards: FLC, Navi, GPS ................900
- 14" Props ..........................................60
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ESTIMATED ....................................$5000
- No landing gear....Ooops, actually the airframe does come with gear of some sort. Not the retracts though, that's extra.
- No gimbal
- No support gear, ie- radio, video gear, batts, etc.
Of course there's options on controllers, motors, and such... This is just a rough guess.
Any way that you look at it, compared to an RC Heli with similar capabilities, this really isn't that expensive and a heli will not have the redundancy of a multirotor. SOLD!
